Bailey Hanks makes Broadway debut as Elle Woods

Earlier this week, we found out who finally bagged the coveted role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search For Elle Woods. Bailey Hanks trumped all the other Elle hopefuls and made her Broadway debut last night (Laura Bell Bundy said goodbye to the role Sunday, July 20th). We're still waiting for reviews about her performance, so we'll keep you posted on any news!

Edit: Check out some comments about Bailey Hanks and her performance as Elle Woods!

Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods

Well, I guess there's another "Broadway Reality Show" and this time it's on MTV. The producers of Legally Blonde and MTV launched a search for the next Elle Woods. They showed the first episode tonight and I admit I am only watching this show for one reason: Seth Rudetsky is the vocal coach. Brava! He was totally Seth on tv with his Ah-mahzing comments!

I had 3 major issues during this initial broadcast:

a) Hayley Duff is a triple threat???!!! --> doesn't that mean you can act?!!

b) So Much Better, the Act 1 closer, is the hardest song on Broadway??!! --> clearly, with all the rap/hip hop songs that are shown on MTV their standards are waaaaay low

c) No one among the girls stood out for me specially during the singing part but who knows hopefully with Seth's coaching they get better.

The best thing about this broadcast is that Seth gets to deconstruct the episodes! Watch him being hilarious in this Hot, Pink and Personal video.

(photo fr. MTV.com)

Dear God NO!!!!!!

I almost fell off my chair when I saw this post on Playbill.com about casting for Legally Blonde:

Playbill.com previously reported Jan. 14, that MTV networks confirmed that casting is underway for an upcoming reality television series that will search for Legally Blonde's next Elle Woods via the same network that brought the musical to millions of television viewers in October 2007.

Full article here. I can just see the Hills Girls hosting this. Why don't you just stab me in the eye with a ballpoint pen!!!!!!!

OMG You Guys!

Sorry I didn't get to blog this on time........BUT for the first time ever in history, Legally Blonde was broadcast on MTV today. It is the first time a Broadway show that is currently running has been filmed and aired on national TV. I just watched it this afternoon and I must say it was filmed well. The cameras were all over giving you multiple camera angles which I think captured the action really well. There were even shots from upstage showing the dance numbers from behind with the audience in the background. The cast was amazing and you could feel that they were excited to be performing. The energy of the cast combined with camera movement made it seem like the show was energetic and electrifying. Now, I haven't seen the show live yet and I know that nothing really compares to the experience of live theatre but this one I think was a good representation of the show. Let's hope it gets people into live theatre!

Oh.....I wasn't too keen on the Hills girls doing intro for the show. Well, ok I admit it, I didn't like them at all. I know it had to be done because it's MTV but the girls COULD have at least memorized their intros! OR at least make it less obvious that they were reading from cue cards! OMG you guys!!!!!!!! How hard is that???!!!!

If you didn't get to catch it.....there's another showing tomorrow night 7pm ET/PT.

Photo: from Broadwayworld.com